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Up-to-date Activities

In past 2 years the Project has fulfilled the following activities:

Trainings on effective perinatal technologies were carried out in 8 project oblasts: Donetsk, Poltava, Zhytomir, Kirovograd,Volyn, L'viv, Kyiv and Republic of Crimea;
A team of trainers were prepared to train health care providers locally;
Trainings on evidence based medicine (a comprehensive method of using valid research outcomes to guide clinical decision-making) conducted for MIHP sites;
Together with the MOH, six protocols were developed and are being published for further dissemination;
Posters and booklets , were developed and are now available at all MIHP sites;
A monitoring and evaluation system was developed which will track the effectiveness of the Project progress;
Close collaboration and joint activity with UNICEF and the Policy Project (Futures Group)

MIHP selected sites:

New Sites:

Dnipropetrovsk City Maternity #2 and W'sC #1, #2:

Rivne City Maternity #2 and W'sC #2:

Luhansk City Maternity;

Women's Consultation of Luhansk City Maternity #8;
•Zhytomyr Oblast Center of Mother and Infant Health;
•Women's Consultation Zhytomyr Oblast Center of Mother and Infant Health;
•Kirovograd Maternity House #1;
•Women's Consultation Kirovograd Maternity #1;
•Komsomol'sk City Hospital;
•Women's Consultation Komsomol's'k Town Hospital;

Kiev:

•Kiev City Maternity #3;
•Women's Consultation of Kiev City Maternity #3;
•Kiev City Clinical Hospital #1;
•Women's Consultation Maternity of Kiev City Hospital #1;

Autonomous Republic of Crimea:

•Simferopol-city Mother and Infant Center;
•Saki-rayon Hospital + outpatient women clinic;
•Simferopol-city Women Outpatient Center;

Volyn Oblast:

•Lutsk-city Maternity;
•Women Outpatient Clinic;
•Kovel-rayon Hospital+outpatient women clinic;
•Novovolyns'k Central Town Hospital + Women's Consultation;
•Kamin-Kashirskyi Central Rayon Hospital + Women's Consultation;

Donetsk Oblast:

•Donetsk Oblast Hospital;
•Donetsk City Maternity #3 + outpatient women clinic;
•Donetsk City Clinical Hospital #6;
•Women's Consultation #1 and #2 Donets'k City Clinical Hospital # 6;
•Torez-rayon Maternity + outpatient women clinic;

L'viv Oblast:

•L'viv Oblast Hospital;
•L'viv Family Outpatient Clinics at Hospital №2;
•Kamenka-Buzka Rayon Hospital + outpatient women clinic;

The Mother and Infant Health Project consists of six coordinated and mutually-supportive components:

1.Develop standards of care and clinical guidelines/protocols for maternal and infant health services and practices;

2.Revise reproductive health (RH) curricula at the Institute of Higher Medical Education;

3.Reinforce RH skills and services of family medicine practitioners to become first-line contact for timely diagnosis and referral;

4. Introduce standards/ protocols for complicated maternal and infant cases at pilot OB/GYN out-patient clinics and hospitals;

5.Introduce evidence-based best practices for childbirth delivery services, management of complicated pregnancies and neo-natal resuscitation and basic neonatology services;

6.Increase public awareness on healthy lifestyles promoting improved maternal and infant health. Successful approaches are rolled-out nationally.

Intermediate Results:

1. Improved perinatal counseling and services at primary health care (PHC) level through family medicine;

2. Enhanced capacity by PHC and family medicine professionals to handle emergency life-threatening pregnancies;

3. Strengthened newborn care;

4. Strengthened family planning services and counseling (post-abortion and partum);

5. Improved linkages between family medicine/PHC clinics, out-patient/women's wellness centers and maternity hospitals;

6. Enhanced integrated care focusing on prenatal services, prepared child-birth and delivery practices;

7. Established M&E system to permit regular feedback to PHC providers.

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